I baffled by these responses. Maybe what you mean by "know" isn't what I mean by it, but my list is a paltry 200 performed over the last five or so years, at least half of which are now (were always?) way off gig standard. I did a gig last Thursday where my list of battle-hardened and up to scratch numbers was between 20 and 30. Right now, I guess I've maybe 80 to 100 which I could do off the top of my head right through with any confidence and probably get all the words and chords right: but only at a singaround. I have to have run through a song a few times in the week before a proper headline gig to know it's still bedded in properly: and it will have taken usually weeks if not months for it to get to gig standard in the first place.

I *do* like to have my own edge to a song, however, and I *do* like to have something of an arrangement to it. I like to know the words and arrangement well enough to be able to "live and breathe" it. I once said that "I don't do karaoke", and I guess that's true: I like to think I don't just go through the motions, but I've got inside a song before gigging it. (Okay, fair enough, I have been known to throw something together for the odd occasion, before those who actually know me put their tuppence worth's in!)

But the title of the thread is "...in your repertoire". So I'd have to say it's about 20 to 30 at any given time. But that that 20 to 30 is drawn from up to 200 which do expand gradually, slowly and painfully.

So I'm not sure if I view the claims of 400, 500, 600+ with humble respect or scepticism. Mostly bafflement, I think.